The IRS Should Not be Administering ObamaCare

The Internal Revenue Service should never have been involved with ObamaCare and certainly not placed in a position of influence and control in the delivery of our health care. It is far too easy for those in power to limit and to deny health care to their political enemies and even to the American people of an opposing political power.

The Internal Revenue Service has just apologized for purposely isolating and attacking Conservative 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations such as the TEA Party. This was apparently a planned and organized harassment of the Right by the Obama Administration. The Treasury Department Inspector General has apparently been aware of this plan of political harassment and retaliation for more than a year.

The IRS admitted that it singled out organizations whose names included “TEA Party” and “Patriot” and demanded extensive information regarding the organization and operations of these organizations. The information sought was far in excess of what would normally be requested by the IRS and is required by law.

It is of interest that Lerner, who apologized for the IRS thuggery on Friday May 10, 1913, claimed no high-level persons at the IRS were aware of the problem. Did Lerner not read the letter from Issa and Jordan sent to her almost 14 months previously? Fox News reported,

Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups, acknowledged the issue at a conference Friday sponsored by the American Bar Association.

She confirmed that organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status.

In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, she said.

"That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate," Lerner said. "The IRS would like to apologize for that."

Lerner said the practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias. After her talk, she told The Associated Press that no high-level IRS officials knew about the practice. She did not say when they found out.

Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner.

The IRS apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. The agency blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware.

But on June 29, 2011, Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report. At the meeting, she was told that groups with "Tea Party," ''Patriot" or "9/12 Project" in their names were being flagged for additional and often burdensome scrutiny, the report says.

Bill Clinton used the IRS as a political weapon, as did Richard Nixon. Clinton was far more skillful in directing the IRS against his enemies than was Richard Nixon. WND reported,

The former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate impeachment hearings says President Clinton’s targeting of the Western Journalism Center by the Internal Revenue Service as exposed in WorldNetDaily is worse than similar offenses by President Nixon and clearly warrants impeachment.

Jerome Zeifman, who headed the Democratic drafting team for the articles of impeachment of Richard Nixon, calls attention to Article II, paragraph one, which cites Nixon’s misuse of the IRS: “He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, endeavored … to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

“Article II was very artfully drafted,” said Zeifman. “Any one of the five articles, standing on its own, independent of the other was sufficient to impeach Nixon and remove him from office.”

Yet Zeifman recalls Nixon was not nearly as successful as Clinton in targeting political adversaries.

“Many of the things I’ve been through in my life I’ve been shocked by. And every time I’ve been shocked — as in the case of Nixon — I’ve thought afterwards that I had lost my capacity to be outraged or shocked,” said Zeifman. “But one of the things the Clinton administration has done is to renew my capacity for being shocked.”

Asked if Clinton is getting away with misdeeds for which Nixon was charged, Zeifman responded, “Of course!”

The Internal Revenue Service has become a political arm of our Federal Government. It administers a Socialist progressive tax plan that is filled with rewards for those who are politically favored. It is capable of rewarding those who are in favor and punishing those who are not. This is not a bureaucratic organization that should be administering a politically motivated Socialist health care scheme.

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"Article II, Section 1, of the Nixon impeachment articles were about the IRS being used to go after his political enemies. Obama made jokes about going after political enemies with IRS audits. Imagine this bunch now in charge of levying Obamacare fines? Ha-ha-ha."

"So the IRS that had to apologize today for targeting tax-exempt groups with 'Tea Party' and 'Patriot' in the names -- and giving 'em trouble and hassling them -- is the same bunch that's gonna administer Obamacare fines in a fair and apolitical way. Ha-ha-ha-ha! Right."

Richard Nixon's campaign headquarters was burglarized in the 1960 election by the JFK campaign.The information they gathered about Howard Hughes donating to the Nixon campaign was discovered in the break in.It may have cost Nixon the election. The liberal,progressive Democrats never remember stuff like this for some weird reason. But they sure never forget about Watergate.

And of course they fail to mention that JFK and RFK wiretapped Dr. Martin Luther King's telephones.JFK and RFK are held up as heroes by the liberal, progressive Democrats. And yet JFK and RFK get away with wiretapping MLK's phone? They thought MLK was dangerous because he was surrounded by known communists. How do the liberal, progressive Democrats get away with this stuff?

using its power to intimidate others based upon political beliefs of the ones they were "investigating".

"So it was appalling to learn Friday that the IRS had improperly targeted conservative groups for scrutiny. It was almost as disturbing that President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew have not personally apologized to the American people and promised a full investigation.....

.....The IRS insisted emphatically that partisanship had nothing to do with it. However, it seems that groups with “progressive” in their titles did not receive the same scrutiny......"